sequence

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a series of related things or events, or the order in which they follow each other:

sequence of events The first chapter describes the strange sequence of events that led to his death.

Is there a particular sequence in which you have to perform these tasks?

in sequence For the sake of convenience the photographs are shown in chronological sequence (= in the order in which they were taken).

a series of notes that is performed more than once at a higher or lower pitch (= level):

The repeating sequences of music never came out the same way twice.

His compositions employ numerous harmonic, melodic, and chordal sequences.

a part of a film that shows a particular event or a related series of events:

opening sequence The movie's opening sequence is of a very unpleasant murder.

to combine things in a particular order, or discover the order in which they are combined:

They discussed how to sequence the steps in the plan.

reading books sequenced in order of difficulty

to discover the order in which nucleotides (= chemical substances) are combined within DNA:

Researchers sequenced the full genome of a rat.

a series of related things or events, or the order in which things or events follow each other:

[ C ] The first chapter describes the strange sequence of events that led to his death.

[ C ] The test papers were not in the correct alphabetical sequence.

A gene sequence is the order in which the bases (= chemical substances) in DNA are arranged in a particular gene (= chemical pattern the controls the characteristics of living things).

a series of related things or events, or the order in which they happen:

In a strange sequence of events, the chairman sued the union and the shareholder.

in sequence The program goes through the data in sequence.